More details on the Axie Infinity Hack: This was done by LinkedIn and in PDF format.

Working on the Internet is always a risk for potential scammers. However, the precautions should be more if you are a high-profile engineer of a video game that supports thousands of people. Axi Infinity.

In March, hackers managed to get $625 million in cryptocurrencies following an attack on the Ronin Network blockchain, a technology that supports title transactions play to earn. This act is the most serious in the history of these digital currencies and has one origin: a job offer in LinkedIn.

Origin of the hack Axi Infinity

In accordance with Blockhack Axi Infinity and its Ronin network was created after a bogus job offer to a key engineer at Sky Mavis, the company behind both projects.

The US government believes that the North Korean hacker group, Lazarus, He was behind the attack. They created employee-focused posts on LinkedIn with a theme and pay hard to ignore.

In order for the employee to trust the recruiting company, they conducted various interviews and promised a juicy contract figure. However, the overall proposal will be sent in PDF format, which the senior engineer will have to read to clarify the details.

It was in this file that the malware was hidden, with which the hackers hacked into his computer, which allowed them to access four of the nine transaction verification nodes on the Ronin network.

Sky Mavis previously reported that hackers gained control of the fifth node of the theoretically decentralized Axie DAO thanks to the decision to allow Sky Mavis to sign transactions during a particularly busy period in November. This power gave the hackers five votes of their own, with which they authorized thefts in cryptocurrencies without objections.

“Employees are subject to continuous extended phishing attacks across various social channels and one employee has been compromised,” Sky Mavis noted in a blog post following the attack. “This employee no longer works for Sky Mavis. The attacker was able to use this access to infiltrate the Sky Mavis infrastructure and gain access to the verification nodes.”

Heavy blow to the industry

The robbery became one of the most powerful in the industry and caused a panic among investors Axi Infinitya video game whose gameplay is based on fighting Pokemon and with cards.

The economic system of the NFT game is that it sells three monsters to future users for different amounts of money in cryptocurrencies. The user, having formed his team, must win duels with other users in order to receive a reward in the form of a coin called SLP, which can be claimed once every two weeks. The problem is that said token has fallen from 40 cents on the dollar to less than one, making it difficult for investors to make a profit.

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